On 7 Nov 2020 at 11:04:52 GMT, ""Dave Plowman" News)"
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Michael Chare wrote:
I would like to buy a diamond tipped tile cutter to cut some ceramic
wall tiles 600x300x10mm for a bathroom. There several products on the
market for less than £50.

Any recommendations as to which one to get?

You mean a table saw type one?

They are often described as wet. Do they all keep the blade cool by
having it in water when it is below the table?

Yes - the underside of the blade runs in water.

Make sure the bed is big enough for your tiles. Some of the smaller ones
would be a PITA with 600mm tiles. The reason I bought a bigger one. It's
not a vast amount bigger, but it makes all the difference.

I have a Plastplugs one - or rather two. The original smaller one OK for
small tiles, but the later larger one has an induction motor so quieter in
operation and allows a longer duty cycle. But cost about £100 many years
ago. The bed size on it is approx 600 x 400mm, and for 600mm tiles I'd not
want anything smaller. To be fair, there was nothing like the number of
makes on the market all those years ago, so may well be cheaper today.

The type where the saw moves - rather than the work - are interesting. But
have no experience of them - mainly because they are so large I'd have
storage problems.


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I've used one of those, for 300mm, 8mm thick porcelain tiles. It has a water
get aiming at the cutting point, and you can do things like 45degree mitres on
the edges of tiles, as well as accurate vertical cuts of the exact length
required. But I think they would cost 10+ times the OP's budget and they are
a bit big. Also, and this was one of my use cases, you can accurately cut
sheets of loosely fixed mosaic tiles by putting them on a non-slip rubber base
and bringing the wheel down vertically on them. Feeding the sheet onto the
side of a wheel would not work.

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Roger Hayter